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The city besieged : siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Israel Eph'al.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ephal, Israel lat
- Standardized Title:
- כעיר נצורה. אנגלית
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Siege warfare--Middle East--lat.
- Sieges--Middle East--lat.
- Military art and science--Middle East--History--lat.
- Middle Eastern literature, Ancient--lat.
- Military history, Ancient--lat.
- War--Biblical teaching--lat.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages) : ill, PDF
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- System Details:
- Mode of access World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic) sources as well as on the depictions on reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Egyptian temples. The analysis incorporates lexical study and military thinking and focuses on the technology of warfare and human behavior is a state of emergency." -- from the book cover
- Contents:
- Ch 1 Introduction
- What is siege warfare
- Purpose of the book and method of discussion
- Ch 2 Sources
- Literary sources
- Non-literary documents
- Artistic representations of siege warfare
- Archaeological evidence
- Ch 3 Military aspects
- Blockade
- Breakthrough
- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects
- Introduction
- Babylonian siege documents
- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar
- Legal significance of the hardship formulae
- "Charitable deeds"
- Ch 5 Social aspects
- Between man and God
- Public life.
- Notes:
- Two printings were published in 2009; one had only the first 113 pages and was probably an error, and the other had 211 pages, with two additional chapters (4 and 5) which match the tables of contents (p. [x-xi) and bibliography and indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and indexes.
- OCLC:
- 863222884
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